State Replication Protocol (SRP)
The talk started out with some talk about the
tradeoffs between a binary encoding mechanism and something more generic (XML).
The presenter (Paul Baumann) gives a little overview of his binary, generic
encoding. It's binary (efficient) but
flexible.
The code base exists in VAST
but works generically in 8 dialects. One of the advantages is that you can
exchange objects between dialects.
He
then went into detail on the structure of the code (how to use
it).
A demo using
Dolphin/VAST.
The demo showed loading
(into Dolphin) some simple objects as well as a complex object for which the
class did not exist in Dolphin. The complex object gets loaded a a special
state/structure. The complex object was then re-serialized and loaded
successfully into VAST (where the class was
defined).
The discussion then went in
to some of the framework portability and how the same code can run in the 8
dialects. Much talk about implementation (and usage implications)
followed.
Posted: Mon - May 3, 2004 at 09:23 AM